CPT code 44300: Enterostomy tube, open bowel-to-skin access2026 Medicare rate & RVUs in Ohio

In Ohio, Medicare pays $776.73 for 44300 in a facility. There’s no office rate.

Check a contract rate as a % of Medicare · 44300 nationwide

Medicare allowed amount for participating (non-QP) physicians, before deductible, coinsurance and claim adjustments. Not a patient’s bill or a hospital charge.

What 44300 covers

A surgeon creates an opening from the small bowel or cecum to the abdominal skin and places a tube through it. The tube may provide enteral feeding or bowel decompression. This service is generally performed in a facility operating room when open access is needed; a jejunostomy tube is a common form of enteral access, while cecostomy tubes may be used for decompression.

Report this code for open tube access, not for a non-tube ileostomy or jejunostomy. The operative note should identify the bowel segment, open approach, tube placement, and clinical purpose. The 90-day global includes the day-before preoperative visit and related postoperative care for 90 days. When multiple procedures occur in the same session, the highest-valued procedure is paid in full and other procedures are subject to the standard multiple-procedure reduction. Modifier 50 is inappropriate for this bowel-to-skin service. Assistant-at-surgery payment may be available; co-surgeon payment requires supporting documentation, and team surgery is not permitted.

This summary was written with AI assistance from CMS physician fee schedule data and checked against the CMS billing rules shown here. Rates on this page come directly from CMS files.

How Ohio compares for 44300

Across 109 of 109 payment localities, the facility rate for 44300 runs from $707.74 in Nebraska to $984.67 in Alaska. Ohio pays $776.73. The RVUs are the same everywhere; the geographic indexes change the dollars.

Every other payment area

44300 rates by state

Office rate range in each state. Select a state to see its payment localities.

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How the 44300 rate is calculated

Each of 44300’s three RVUs is multiplied by a geographic index (GPCI) for the payment locality, added up, and multiplied by the conversion factor. Drag the indexes or enter a ZIP to see what moves the rate.

Payment rules and modifiers for 44300

44300 has a 90-day global period: related visits in that window are included in the surgery payment.

What modifiers do to the payment

When to use modifier 51

Codes related to 44300

Related codes aren’t interchangeable: bill the code that matches the service performed.

How 44300 has changed in Ohio

Price 44300 for an earlier date of service

Where the Ohio rate applies

Ohio is a Medicare payment area, not a city. Our Census mapping connects it to 1265 cities and communities in Ohio. Some span more than one payment area; confirm with the service ZIP.

• Aberdeen
• Ada
• Adamsville
• Addyston
• Adelphi
• Adena
• Ai
• Akron

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Where these rates come from

FeeBase calculates base physician payments from CMS work, practice-expense and malpractice RVUs, adjusted by each locality’s geographic indexes and the conversion factor. Services without a published rate are labeled, never given a made-up amount. Amounts are Medicare allowed amounts before claim adjustments: not a patient’s bill or a commercial rate.

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